Teacher Man

As a young man, Frank McCourt leaves Irelandand moves to New York.

He works and studies hard, and soon becomes a teacher in a school where the students have no interest in learning.

Many of them are impossible to teach, with terrible problems at home and school.

McCourt is faced with students who nobody wants to teach.

Some of his students think that he is a crazy, drunk, violent Irishman.

A moving memoir written with wit and charm.